It seems that as usual, science is slow to accept and establish things that are on the further side of “ordinary”, despite all the evidence pointing in that direction. At least, however, remote viewing is making inroads as science continues to try to ‘prove it’. Read on…

Could there be proof to the theory that we’re ALL psychic?

By DANNY PENMAN, Daily Mail

Dr Chris Roe places a pair of enormous fluffy earphones over the head of a blonde 20-year-old woman. He carefully slices a ping-pong ball in half and tapes each piece over her eyes.

Then he switches on a red light that bathes the woman in an eerie glow, and leaves the room.

After a few moments, a low hum begins to fill the laboratory and the woman begins smiling sweetly to herself as images of distant locations start to pass through her mind.

She says she can sense a group of trees and a babbling brook full of boulders. Standing on a boulder is her friend Jack. He’s waving at her and smiling. She begins to describe the location to Dr Roe.

Half a mile away, her friend Jack is, indeed, standing on a boulder in a stream.

Somehow, the woman has been able to “see” Jack in her mind’s eye, even though all of conventional science - and common sense - says it is impossible. Is this simply a bizarre coincidence?

Or could it be proof that we all possess psychic powers of the type popularised in such films as Minority Report?

That is what Dr Roe is investigating. A parapsychologist based at the University of Northampton, he is examining whether it could indeed be possible to project your “mind’s eye” to a distant location and observe what is going on - even if that place is hundreds of miles away. And though the research is not yet complete, the results have been tantalising.

His early findings suggest that up to 85 per cent of people may possess some form of clairvoyance - the ability to “remote view”. And he believes that with only a modicum of training we can all sharpen our psychic skills.

“Our results are significant,” says Dr Roe.

“They suggest that remote viewing, or clairvoyance, is something that should be taken seriously.”

It would be easy to dismiss such claims as laughable, were it not for the fact that an increasing number of scientists are taking them seriously.

While Dr Roe’s work may appear controversial, he is starting to garner the support of eminent academics such as Professor Brian Josephson, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist from Cambridge University, who says: “The experiments have been designed to rule out luck and chance. I consider the evidence for remote viewing to be pretty clear-cut.”

The military is also taking a keen interest. The Ministry of Defence takes the phenomena seriously enough to have commissioned its own research.

Documents only recently released under the Freedom of Information Act detail a series of experiments on psychic phenomena.

Unfortunately, the actual details of the experiments that were carried out - and what the conclusions were - are still classified, and intriguingly the MoD refuses to say whether they were a success.

They claim that releasing such details would imperil the defence of the nation, and what little information has been released is described as “poor quality” by Dr Roe. “Their analysis of the data is quite frankly, woeful,” he says.

But the very existence of such files suggests that the military are taking the possibility of psychic phenomena seriously. In fact, most existing scientific knowledge on clairvoyance is based on other recently declassified military research undertaken in America during the Cold War.

During the Sixties and Seventies, paranoia gripped the US military establishment. Strange rumours began circulating that the Russians had found a way of harnessing psychic powers and begun wielding them as weapons.

Psychic skills such as telekinesis - the ability to move objects or control machines using nothing more than the power of the mind - were apparently being taught to soldiers in elite combat units.

They were also said to be using clairvoyants to gather intelligence from top-secret American bases. If true, the American’s believed, it would mean that the Russians could discover their most important secrets and even control the minds of their Generals.

So in the early Seventies, the US military began its own top-secret research to try to close the “psychic intelligence gap” with the Russians. The CIA later joined them in a series of covert research projects that were given suitably innocuous titles such as Sun Streak, Grill Flame and Star Gate.

These were designed to track down the most gifted psychics in the U.S., unravel the mysteries of their powers and then find ways of teaching these skills to ordinary soldiers and agents.

The aim was to produce a new breed of “super-soldier” capable of controlling matter with their minds and gathering intelligence from afar.

But some in the military wanted to go even further.

The US Navy wanted to send confidential orders to their nuclear submarines using telepathy, which would be impossible for even the most sophisticated enemy listening devices to intercept.

And Major General Albert N. Stubblebine III, commanding officer of the US Army Intelligence and Security Command, suggested that one day soldiers might even be able to “walk through walls”, using psychic powers to overcome the physical boundary.

And if that wasn’t enough, researchers at Princeton University (where Einstein was once based) and Stanford were similarly tasked with investigating the paranormal.

Scientists at Stanford quickly focused on the use of clairvoyance, known as remote viewing in technical parlance, as the most militarily useful psychic skill.

Very soon, Stanford played host to more than a dozen psychic spies, whose paranormal skills were once demonstrated to President Jimmy Carter.

The remote viewers used a deceptively simple method based on what is known as the Ganzfeld technique to help “see” deep into enemy territory.

They induced an altered state of consciousness by seating themselves in a sound-proof room and wearing earphones playing white noise. Pingpong balls sliced in half were placed over their eyes to obscure vision. The whole room was then bathed in soft red light.

The map coordinates of the “target” location would be written on a piece of paper, placed in an envelope and handed to the viewer.

He would be allowed to touch the envelope but forbidden to open it. Alternatively, pictures of the target location would be sealed in the envelope.

The remote viewers would then slip into a light meditative trance and their “mind’s eye” would be drawn to the target location. Pictures, feelings and impressions would then drift into their minds from the target, which might be located thousands of miles away.

To an outsider, this approach might appear to produce only hopelessly vague results that were no better than guesswork.

But the scientists investigating remote viewing found them to be surprisingly accurate, giving military intelligence a small but significant advantage over their cold war enemies.

Joe McMoneagle was one such “psychic spy”. Given the codename “Remote Viewer No 1″, his primary role was to use remote viewing to look inside Russian military bases and gather intelligence.

McMoneagle was recruited from US Army intelligence in Vietnam because of his amazing ability to survive while on reconnaissance missions behind enemy lines against seemingly impossible odds.

His commanding officers thought he was either amazingly lucky, psychic - or a double agent. On his return home, he was tested for his remote-viewing skills at Stanford and found to have psychic gifts. He went on to spend the next 20 years tracking Russian nuclear warheads and gathering intelligence.

His work eventually earned him the Legion of Merit, America’s highest military non-combat medal. “My success rate was around 28 per cent,” says McMoneagle. “That may not sound very good, but we were brought in to deal with the hopeless cases.

“Our information was then cross-checked with any other available intelligence to build up an overall picture. We proved to be quite useful ’spies’.” Word of America’s experiments with the paranormal spread to the UK and while the military were sceptical, the Metropolitan Police spotted an intriguing possibility.

Could psychic powers be harnessed to help solve crimes?

They soon had their answer when a woman named Nella Jones came to their attention, claiming that she could help locate a priceless Vermeer painting, called The Guitar Player, that had been stolen from Kenwood House in North London in 1974.

Nella told the police that she had been ironing some clothes and idly watching the television when her mind suddenly focused on the whereabouts of the painting.

She hurriedly sketched it out and took it to the police, who were understandably sceptical. But having nothing else to go on they followed the lead. The painting was eventually recovered from St Bartholomew’s churchyard as a result of the information she gave them.

Again, it would be easy to dismiss Nella’s guidance to the police as just blind luck. Easy, that is, if she hadn’t spent the following 20 years helping them ensnare murderers and other serious offenders.

“Nella gave invaluable assistance on a number of murders,” says Detective Chief Inspector Arnie Cooke. “Her evidence was not the type you can put before a jury. But senior investigating officers have got to take people like her on board and accept what they are saying.”

In fact, so useful was Nella to Scotland Yard that in 1993 they publicly thanked her and senior officers hosted a dinner in her honour. Scotland Yard later wrote to her, saying: “Some police officers may have seemed sceptical of your abilities … but it is a mark of those abilities that police turn to you time and time again.”

Such anecdotes are all very well but there is statistical evidence, too, that proves that psychic skills are a useful tool for law enforcement agencies and the military.

In 1995, the US Congress asked two independent scientists to assess whether the $20 million that the government had spent on psychic research had produced anything of value. And the conclusions proved to be somewhat unexpected.

Professor Jessica Utts, a statistician from the University of California, discovered that remote viewers were correct 34 per cent of the time, a figure way beyond what chance guessing would allow.

She says: “Using the standards applied to any other area of science, you have to conclude that certain psychic phenomena, such as remote viewing, have been well established. “The results are not due to chance or flaws in the experiments.”

Of course, this doesn’t wash with sceptical scientists.

Professor Richard Wiseman, a psychologist at the University of Hertfordshire, refuses to believe in remote viewing. He says: “I agree that by the standards of any other area of science that remote viewing is proven, but begs the question: do we need higher standards of evidence when we study the paranormal? I think we do.

“If I said that there is a red car outside my house, you would probably believe me.

“But if I said that a UFO had just landed, you’d probably want a lot more evidence.

“Because remote viewing is such an outlandish claim that will revolutionise the world, we need overwhelming evidence before we draw any conclusions. Right now we don’t have that evidence.”

Back at the University of Northampton, Dr Chris Roe hopes he can provide such proof one way or the other. Next month, he will embark on a series of experiments that will be more rigorous than any so far attempted.

They will rule out fluke positive results and any unconscious biases held by anyone involved with the experiments. And if that wasn’t enough, he then plans to embark on research into an even more outlandish field: whether it is possible to remote view through time.

In other words, he will investigate whether it is possible for remote viewers not only to observe distant locations, but also to see what will happen at that place at a predetermined time in the future.

“Time does not seem to be a barrier to remote viewing,” says Dr Roe, matter of factly.

Certainly, only time will tell whether he has been cruelly deluded, or has glimpsed a very intriguing future.

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The Discovery Channel looks into the CIA Remote Viewing Program. From his home, Joe McMoneagle’s remote viewing abilities were tested, watch his extraordinary abilities in the video below.

“The implications are awesome; we’re looking at the chance of healing the human body by willpower alone…”

CIA remote viewer Joe McMoneagle, who worked back in project StarGate at the Stanford research institute, appears on a discovery documentary on mind powers. He spied on Russia, Iran, and various other countries for the CIA.

This video also has some Extra sensory perception, Remote cognital influencing, Precognition and general parapsychological studies and experiments.

Below: Links to the ACTUAL American Institutes for Research (AIR) reports used in examining the testing methods used to measure psychic ability (including remote viewing - which gave otherwise unexplainable evidence) and to reach the conclusions drawn by two doctors who examined the Star Gate program at the request of the CIA. . . Courtesy of the Enigma Editor of ParaScope.com. Enjoy!

Operation Star Gate Documents

• AIR Report: Executive Summary
  Summary of the American Institutes for Research report prepared on remote viewing at the request of the CIA.

• AIR Report: Full Text
  The full text of the American Institutes for Research report prepared on remote viewing at the request of the CIA.

• Parapsychology in Intelligence
  This report appeared in the Winter 1977 issue of Studies in Intelligence, the CIA’s classified internal publication. A CIA paranormal expert provides a historical overview of the agency’s investigation and use of psychic spies.

See this index page page here >>

This is the last in a series Operation Star Gate: U.S Intelligence and Psychic Spies written by D. Trull, the Enigma Editor of ParaScope.com. This is very exciting - unexplained evidence (but explained by remote viewing, of course). The next post however, has something very special for you - find out soon! (Hint - You can use to to reach your own conclusions!)

4. Unexplained Anecdotal Evidence

Even though the experts hired by the American Institutes for Research recommended that continuation of the Star Gate program was not justified, they both agreed that certain of the test results seemed unexplainable by conventional science. Actual remote viewing may have been demonstrated.

It is difficult to judge the anomalies that Utts and Hyman proclaim, because the AIR report reveals very little of the exact content of the tests: that is, actual beacons’ images paired with corresponding viewers’ descriptions. Instead, the report primarily offers obtuse bar graphs and spreadsheets of numerical test scores as evidence.

One “success” that is described in anecdotal detail involved two separate remote viewers who reported the location of a secret underground installation. Given only the “coordinates of the site” located in West Virginia, the subjects described the surrounding landscape and a government base hidden beneath.

The report does not name it as such, but this site would appear to be the infamous “Mount Weather” installation, also known as the Western Virginia Office of Controlled Conflict Operations, run by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).

Mount Weather reportedly houses a complete duplicate of the Federal government, secretly waiting on stand-by to run the United States in the event of a national catastrophe or declaration of martial law. One of the remote viewers went so far as to name codewords and personnel associated with the base, and his accuracy was high enough to spark a full investigation into any possible leak for this classified information.

Hyman points out that these remote viewers may have been relying on foreknowledge of the Mount Weather facility rather than psychic powers. Considering that this particular test supplied the location up front, and that the majority of the remote viewers who participated were government employees, the possibility is a reasonable one.

A third remote viewer identified the existence of a rail-mounted gantry crane in the then-Soviet city of Semipalatinsk. Despite the uncanny accuracy of the description, the official who analyzed this viewer deemed his test results unsuccessful, since the bulk of his observations were erroneous.

Another anecdotal report, appearing only in a censored document given as an appendix, describes apparent successes in the remote viewing of North Korea. Viewers identified possible rail tunnels leading into the Republic of Korea. Unlike the others, this particular case appears to go beyond mere testing to attempt discerning information which the U.S. government does not already possess.

The document states, “the indicator regarding rail line camouflage is extremely important since it provides a possible answer to the controversy over rail line activity south [deletion] where rails allegedly no longer exist.”

Of the pool of remote viewers studied, six were judged to perform at a level significantly higher than the rest. The report provides no further specifics about these six and what they “saw,” but both expert reviewers managed to use their existence to support their viewpoints.

Utts argues that since the same testing methods were used in every case, all results should have been equal; since some viewers were able to distinguish themselves from the rest, their abilities must therefore be valid. Hyman, on the other hand, points out that statistical methods used in the study can permit the few high scorers to overshadow the wild inaccuracies of other viewers.

Subjects scored much higher on “free response” tests, in which they described a target in their own words, than they did on “forced choice” tests, which involved selecting the correct target out of a list. Additionally, the successes of tests conducted without a distant person acting as a beacon raised the question of whether a beacon is necessary at all.

In another test, meanwhile, interaction between two distant minds produced a striking and unexpected result. Remote observation experiments, which measured whether a person can affect the body chemistry of another merely by looking at the person, yielded markedly more positive results when the two subjects were of the opposite sex.

One could interpret these findings as evidence that remote viewing is a potent, organic ability that functions independently of formal trappings and external assistance. Maybe it is an unrecognized aspect of the human condition that influences our everyday communication and behavior patterns.

Who knows — maybe this property that the CIA attempted to use for the purposes of war could even be a component of human sexual dynamics: the most complex intelligence operation of all.

You can access this article here….
© Copyright 1998 ParaScope, Inc. written by D. Trull, Enigma Editor, ParaScope.com

If you are interested in taking part, please read below and send an email request for an invitation.

The Psi Society exists to investigate any purportedly psychic phenomenon, parapsychological abilities or events. This includes but is not limited to: psychokinesis, telepathy, clairvoyance, extrasensory perception (ESP) and so on.

The term Remote Viewing was introduced by American physicists Russel Targ and Harold Putoff in 1974. Targ and Putoff, based at the Stanford Research Institute (SRI), carried out government funded research into the ability of individuals to gather information from remote locations outside of their physical perception.

Similar research was carried out forty years previously by best-selling American author Upton Sinclair (whose novel, The Jungle, brought attention from President Roosevelt and led to the passing of two Acts). Upton Sinclair’s 2nd wife, Marie Craig, achieved astonishingly accurate hits recreating pictures unseen by her and sealed in envelopes (many drawn 100s of miles away). Their investigations were written up in the book Mental Radio.

More recent research has explored the effect of groups of people focusing on a single target (Remote Viewing by Committee: RV Using a Mulitple Agent / Multiple Percipient Design. Journal of Parapsychology, Vol 63 2003.)

In our investigation we will be looking at Remote Viewing by committee and the effect of hypnotism on Remote Viewing.

Location: Treadwell’s Bookshop, 34 Tavistock Street, Covent Garden, London WC2E 7PB

Time: 26th April 2008, from 10am - 4.30pm

How to find Treadwell’s Bookshop

Details

To take part in this investigation you MUST send an email request for an invitation. Invitations are allocated on a first come, first served basis. The email address is given on page 3.

The day will begin with a short introductory lecture on Remote Viewing (10.30am-11am) followed by a briefing on the investigation to follow.

Participants will then take part in a series of Remote Viewing experiments testing their ability to draw objects hidden from sight as well as attempting to draw a scene viewed by another participant at another location. Scales of accuracy will be used to evaluate the drawings of the viewers. The final experiment will involve a volunteer attempting to remote view a target while in a state of hypnosis. The hypnotism will be conducted by a trained professional.

The results of the investigation will be posted on the Psi website.

Here are some details of the experiments:

Experiments

# 1. Envelope Test
5 drawings, sealed in envelopes, will be passed among the participants who will then attempt to ’see’ these images and recreate them on paper provided.

.# 2. Box Test
An object sealed in a box will be presented to the participants who will attempt to ’see’ inside. In this test we are interested in not only drawings of the object but in its perceived age, dimensions, history, etc.

# 3. Remote Location Test
An observer at a remote location will view a scene of their choice. Participants will be asked to ’see’ what our observer sees and to draw their visions on paper provided.

# 4. Book Test
A page randomly selected from a book will be chosen by an observer. He or she will read a paragraph on that page and participants will make notes on what they can ’see’. Can the participants pick up on what is being read?

# 5. Hypnotism Test
A volunteer will be hypnotised. (1) We will then test to see if the committee (group of participants) are more successful at remote viewing. (2) We will then test to see if the hypnotised participant is more successful at viewing what an observer sees at a remote location.

Contribution

All participants are asked to pay £10.00 to help us with our costs on this investigation. This money, payable on the day, covers the cost of the room, advertising and information packs for participants. Anyone who pays in advance is eliglible for a discount. Advance payments can be made via Paypal using the link on page 3.

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Step One

If you are available between 10am and 4.30pm on April 26th 2008, can get to Covent Garden in London send an email to the address below. If there are places available you will be sent an invitation to attend.

investigations@psi-society.com

Step Two

If you are invited to attend the investigation - places are alocated on a first come, first served basis so email as soon as you know you are free to attend - then simply turn up to Treadwell’s Bookshop in Covent Garden no later than 10.30am.

Step Three

Unless you pay in advance, you will be asked to pay £10.00 on the door to help with the costs of running the investigation. You can book in advance for just £7.50 by using the Paypal link on the left.

Step Four

You do not need to bring anything with you, all pens and paper are provided. There is a break for lunch, you can bring your own or make use of the many cafes available in the area.

Step Five

You can take part in as many of the experiments as you like, none are compulsory and you can remain an observer if you wish. We are taking the investigation seriously but hope to have some fun at the same time and that everyone enjoys the day.

Step Six

After the investigation we will gather the results and post them on this website. Anyone may use these results as long as they state their source.

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The third in an intriguing series, “Operation Star Gate: U.S Intelligence and Psychic Spies“, written by D. Trull, Enigma Editor of ParaScope.com, this section features a doctor who discredits parapsychology. However, the next article in this series discusses the evidence that was found using remote viewing that could not have been found any other way!

3. “Parapsychology Has No Foundation”

Dr. Raymond Hyman, a Professor of Psychology at the University of Oregon, is the other expert asked for an opinion on the Star Gate program.

While Dr. Hyman agrees with Dr. Utts that the test results do appear significantly higher than random chance would allow, and there are no obvious flaws in testing technique, he contends that Star Gate has proven nothing and that psychic phenomena have yet to earn a place in the scientific world.

The entire field of study known as parapsychology, Hyman asserts, has no cumulative foundation to build its findings upon. The discoveries of one generation of its students are gradually found to be bogus or inconclusive, leaving those who follow to start with a clean slate each time. This is fundamentally different from established science, where replicability of all known phenomena is a sacred hallmark. Hyman calls parapsychology “unique among the sciences in relying solely on significant departures from a chance baseline to establish the presence of its alleged phenomenon.”

It is partly for this reason that Hyman discounts the effect sizes that Utts submitted as proof. An effect size reflects not a known property, but a measure of deviation from a known property. Furthermore, Hyman maintains that taking the average of a series of effect sizes results in a meaningless aggregation of numbers from which no real conclusions can be drawn. He points out that such figures can be shifted around to support a variety of different viewpoints with ease.

Hyman finds the testing methods to be sound and believes that the findings may represent a scientific anomaly. (He does object to the use of only one judge, familiar with the individual viewers, conducting all of the judging, rather than using a double-blind system.)

Nonetheless, a phenomenon’s lack of an explanation constitutes only a null hypothesis, which is a necessary condition for establishing scientific fact, but not a sufficient condition.

Even in the best of circumstances, Hyman would not accept Star Gate as proof that psychic ability exists, because science does not accept new findings on the basis of one study conducted by one organization with no outside verification. Compounding matters is the cloak of government secrecy which isolated the affair during most of its existence — a far cry from the open community spirit found on the frontiers of pure science.

Predictably, Hyman agrees with Utts that while Star Gate presents no useful applications for military intelligence, its findings are promising enough to merit continued research of another form.

The next step is to develop measurement methods for paranormal phenomena which define their occurrence in positive terms, rather than by their deviance from the expected norm. “Without such a theory,” Hyman writes, “we might just as well argue that what has been demonstrated is a set of effects — each one of which [may] be the result of an entirely different cause.”

Next: Anecdotal evidence suggests a number of scientifically unexplainable incidents.

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This post continues the series, “Operation Star Gate, U.S Intelligence and Psychic Spies” written by D. Trull, Enigma Editor of ParaScope.com. The first of the two doctors asked by the CIA to examine the tests shares her opinion.

2. “Psychic Functioning is Well Established”

The first of the two experts commissioned to review Star Gate was Dr. Jessica Utts, a Professor of Statistics at the University of California/Davis. Dr. Utts strongly asserts her belief that the tests she examined have proven remote viewing to be a real, measurable phenomenon.

“Using the standards applied to any other area of science,” Utts writes, “it is concluded that psychic functioning has been well established. The statistical results of the studies examined are far beyond what is expected by chance. Arguments that these results could be due to methodological flaws in the experiments are soundly refuted…. Such consistency cannot be readily explained by claims of flaws or fraud.”

Central to the evidence Utts cites is a close similarity in “effect sizes” among test results. Effect size is a measurement method used in sociology to distinguish random chance (defined as zero) from a tangible effect (ranging from a small size of 0.2 to a large size of 0.8).

Utts presents results from a range of tests in which the numerical effect sizes are very similar across the board. She accepts this as proof that remote viewing can be successfully replicated in laboratory conditions, and thus is scientifically sound.

While the earliest remote viewing tests were later found imperfect, Utts reports that she found no flaws or loopholes in Star Gate’s modern methodologies. (Problems with earlier scoring methods included unfairly permitting judges to use a process of elimination in matching descriptions to targets, or to give the viewer hints such as the beacon’s driving time to his target destination.)

Utts goes on to speculate on a possible rational explanation for psychic ability. Noting that our five natural senses act as detectors of change (sight acts on change in motion, color and depth; hearing acts on change in volume and pitch, etc.), it is reasonable to expect that a psychic sense also detects change.

Targets containing a large amount of change, such as variations in color, were more successfully identified by remote viewers than other targets. Utts supposes that psychic ability may work by searching for high degrees of change, whether nearby or far away, whether happening now or in the future.

Despite her belief in the validity of remote viewing, Utts concludes that Star Gate can be of little, if any, use as an intelligence tool. Believing psychic abilities to be inborn, Utts contends it would not be possible to train a corps of agents as remote viewers.

She also deems the information gathered by the method too arbitrary and unreliable to be useful or accurate — even though, as she further admits, “The same is probably true of most sources of intelligence data.” Utts suggests that the government discontinue its inquiry into whether psychic ability exists and instead study why it exists.

Next: Rebuttal from Dr. Raymond Hyman, who believes that Star Gate has proven nothing.

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This is the second post of an objective short series on “Operation Star Gate, U.S Intelligence and Psychic Spies” written by D. Trull, the Enigma Editor, ParaScope. In this section, she writes about the testing of Psychic Abilities.

1. Testing Psychic Abilities of SG Operatives

The most recent series of remote viewing experiments by U.S. intelligence agencies was a Defense Intelligence Agency program codenamed “Star Gate,” which was instituted in the 1990s.

As part of a decision in 1995 to declassify its research in parapsychology, the CIA commissioned an outside organization, the American Institutes for Research, to determine whether remote viewing is a viable intelligence option.

AIR filed its report, “An Evaluation of Remote Viewing: Research and Applications,” in September, 1995.

The report summarizes the history and methods of Star Gate and its predecessors, followed by independent reviews from two experts on parapsychology, Dr. Jessica Utts and Dr. Raymond Hyman.

The reviewers focus on two of the three primary objectives of the Star Gate program: “Research and Development” (conducting studies to improve remote viewing for intelligence gathering) and Operations,” (using remote viewing against foreign targets). A third objective, “Foreign Assessment” — which investigated any possible remote viewing capabilities of foreign powers — was outside the scope of the study.

Testing Methodology

The bulk of the testing was conducted on a “beacon and viewer” basis. A person acting as the sender, or “beacon,” traveled to a remote location or examined a photograph or other object. In isolation, a remote viewer attempted to describe, through visual descriptions and drawings, the beacon’s physical surroundings or what he was observing. In most instances, the beacons were simply looking at photographs from National Geographic.

With the data collected, a judge compared the viewer’s descriptions to what the beacon was observing, and determined whether reasonably correct “hits” have been made. The number of recorded hits was matched against the number that could occur by random chance, providing a quantified measure of the remote viewer’s success.

The AIR report also examines the results of a different testing technique called the “ganzfeld” method. In a ganzfeld experiment, the viewer enters a trance-like altered mental state, unlike the standard remote viewing method, whose viewers remain fully conscious and alert. Unlike the “beacon and viewer” method, ganzfeld viewers evaluate the end results themselves, without a third-party judge.

Another sort of test dealt with the topic of “remote observation.” Citing the folk belief that it is possible to feel that one is being watched, these studies tested whether a person’s physiology changed appreciably when a distant, hidden observer alternately looked at them and looked away.
Obviously, if it were actually possible for a remote agent to manipulate a subject’s body chemistry, the implications for applications against a nation’s enemies go far beyond mere information gathering.

Next: Star Gate analysis from Dr. Jessica Utts, who concludes that remote viewing “is possible and has been demonstrated.”

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I came across some more interesting articles written by D. Trull, Enigma Editor, ParaScope, chronicling and objectively analyzing the CIA’s use of remote viewing in the program known as “Star Gate”, with I will put up a series of posts that follow the history behind Star Gate, remote viewing, and the conclusions of doctors who examined the Star Gate program at the request of the CIA.

Operation Star Gate: U.S Intelligence and Psychic Spies

by D. Trull, Enigma Editor, ParaScope

Imagine a military intelligence operative with abilities reaching far beyond any network of informants or advanced spying technology. An agent able to probe the enemy’s deepest underground bunkers, determine the exact location of a group of hostages, or physically incapacitate foreign leaders or entire armies. All from thousands of miles away, using only the power of his mind.

For decades, U.S. intelligence agencies have been engaged in a quest to find just such an agent. Efforts to determine intelligence applications for psychic abilities have centered around “remote viewing,” a purported clairvoyant ability to spy on distant enemies. In this special report, we’ll examine the testing methods used to measure psychic ability and the conclusions drawn by two doctors who examined the Star Gate program at the request of the CIA.

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Below are some beautifully insightful personal lists from Fire’s Personal Archives, categorized under Misc. Personal Articles and maintained very well, I dare add by PJ.

PJ (Palyne Gaenir) owns an impressive archive Firedocs Remote Viewing Collection (’95-’02) where you can find numerous Remote viewing resources. PJ a brilliant writer, was a past student of Controlled Remote Viewing, CRV, under many of the ex military viewers, and is now a freestyle viewer and advocate. Controlled Remote Viewing is a term first coined by Ingo Swann. Previously based mainly at TKR, her blog informs us that she has now ‘retired’ from the still very active TKR Remote Viewing Project (’03-’08).

PJ, on remote viewing:

There are big things, and little things.
The big thing is viewing. Just do it. Do it a lot.
Everything else is a little thing.

• THE TOP 10 THINGS I LEARNED ABOUT CRV

1. It isn’t easy.
2. English sucks.
3. The structure without talent is just an exercise.
4. The talent without structure is just a game.
5. Emphasis on validating facts sure can dent your ego.
6. Not validating facts will warp your ego (-and rationality).
7. It is highly individualized, despite consistent structure.
8. It can be pleasant, but it’s not exactly fun.
9. There is no god but PRACTICE.
10. It isn’t fast—or easy. Yes, that’s the last word too.

• THE TOP 10 THINGS I LEARNED THE HARD WAY

1. DESCRIBE the target in detail and prove yourself to be psychic. Try to IDENTIFY it and prove yourself a fool.
2. It’s much easier to do it than to fight it. But there is nothing harder than to let go of the fight.
3. The only thing “certain to be” flowers is hippopotamus whiskers. Assume anything at your own risk, no matter how obvious it seems “it must be.”
4. Everybody feels like an idiot for awhile. Sometimes for a long while.
5. One thing sure is that your subconscious already knows the answer… and that your conscious will hide it if you let it.
6. Half of good training ends up being therapy.
7. From all appearances, the subconscious speaks Etruscan in 4-D, translates it through geometry, encrypts it in some long-dead fish language, and then feeds you that information in code. Of course, it’s always perfectly obvious in retrospect.
8. Most of being right is being willing to be wrong.
9. It’s much better to write down something that is wrong than to realize you didn’t write down what turned out to be right.
10. Being intelligent is no guarantee. Being psychic is no guarantee. In the end they’ll certainly help. But in the beginning, following structure and practicing is the only guarantee you can learn it, let alone be good at it.